Aug 23, 2007

Summarizing 3 months of blogging

Time flies and it has been 3 months since I started my blog. Here are some random thoughts about it:

I enjoy it. I like to take a break from everything else and focus on writing a post. I often find myself thinking about good topics for posts or just working on something and saying to myself: "I should blog about it".

It is time consuming. I did my best to write at least one article per week. It usually takes about 2-3 hours. Some took much more.

I focused on generating my own original content. Quoting posts from other blogs seems a bit like plagiarism, even when you quote the source. Something feels wrong. Nevertheless, I plan to start doing it in my blog - I read a lot of other blogs and I'm always sifting through tons of posts. Taking the jewels and highlighting them on my blog can provide real value to my readers.

It sounds funny to say "my readers", but I did get over 3000 visitors during that time, which is an average of over 30 people per day. I have about the same amount of subscribers (you don't count them as visitors, they usually get it by RSS or email). That's not a lot, but that's a start.

I found that the best way to promote my blog is posting the links on other sites like discussion groups and bulleting boards.

I tried to reach out to fellow bloggers with little success. I still fantasize about having a feature on a post I wrote in one of my favorite blogs which have massive publication. I'm constantly thinking about how...

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Summarizing 3 months of blogging

Time flies and it has been 3 months since I started my blog. Here are some random thoughts about it:

I enjoy it. I like to take a break from everything else and focus on writing a post. I often find myself thinking about good topics for posts or just working on something and saying to myself: "I should blog about it".

It is time consuming. I did my best to write at least one article per week. It usually takes about 2-3 hours. Some took much more.

I focused on generating my own original content. Quoting posts from other blogs seems a bit like plagiarism, even when you quote the source. Something feels wrong. Nevertheless, I plan to start doing it in my blog - I read a lot of other blogs and I'm always sifting through tons of posts. Taking the jewels and highlighting them on my blog can provide real value to my readers.

It sounds funny to say "my readers", but I did get over 3000 visitors during that time, which is an average of over 30 people per day. I have about the same amount of subscribers (you don't count them as visitors, they usually get it by RSS or email). That's not a lot, but that's a start.

I found that the best way to promote my blog is posting the links on other sites like discussion groups and bulleting boards.

I tried to reach out to fellow bloggers with little success. I still fantasize about having a feature on a post I wrote in one of my favorite blogs which have massive publication. I'm constantly thinking about how...